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UAL342 United

Boeing 737-8 · N47288 · SFO → ?

· 0:25Quality 80nose/tail

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −68%). Download

Trace

Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.

—FOV —az —el —pose —
Lock

Events

Tracking metrics

How well the camera kept the aircraft centred. Tap a metric for what it means and what good looks like.

Lockshare of the pass
62%
First lockfrom target selected
8.2 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.17° / 0.18°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.74° / 0.75°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.8 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
9.5 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
9.9 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.15° / 0.16°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.64° / 0.59°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
0.86°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.72°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.45°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.78°
Zoom steps
22

Aircraft & route

Flight
UAL342
Registration
N47288
Type
Boeing 737-8
Airline
United
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
298 kt
Altitude at closest
9,850 ft
Vertical rate
+3,456 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a5cc19

Pass geometry

Max elevation
23.4°
Elevation at start → end
23.4° → 17.3°
Azimuth at start → end
215° SW → 204° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
215° SW
Minimum slant range
7.7 km
Heading at closest
188° S
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (27°)
Turn
straight (11°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:25 (25.0 s)
Lock
62%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-15q — drive speed latched at the lens position; measured speed bytes only; auto-cal keeps gains
Commit
44f2d6a
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
12.4 MB · 25.0 s · offset -1.7 s
pursuit
velocity
maxLeadSec
3
panLatencySec
0.6
tiltLatencySec
0.4
rippleDeg
0.5
rippleTeleDeg
0.25
maxSpeedStepFwps
0.45
speedReachFrac
0.8
lockedSigmaDeg
0.35
sigmaGrowthDps
0.1
aimLeadSec
-0.11
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License